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Yes, I admit I watch\u00a0Total Divas<\/em>.\u00a0 To some, this shouldn\u2019t be much of a surprise, given the fact that I\u2019ve been a fan of professional wrestling pretty much my entire life.\u00a0 From the kid who used to believe that it was all real, to the smarky, kayfabe-wise adult I am now that knows the whole thing is all scripted and pre-determined, but no less enjoyable from varying other aspects.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, I knew I would end up watching Total Divas, because I\u2019m a wrestling fan, and even though it\u2019s a show aimed at a primarily female audience, I was pretty sure that I wasn\u2019t going to be the only guy around who ended up watching it, because frankly, WWE Divas are pleasant on the eyes, and who wouldn\u2019t want to see some eye candy?\u00a0 Furthermore, and as full of shit as it might sound, I just like the idea of getting a glimpse of the supposed reality of the wrestling industry as well, even if it was going to come from the divas\u2019 perspective, primarily.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To be perfectly honest, having seen all the episodes, it was about as enjoyable as I thought it would be.\u00a0 There were plenty of interesting glimpses of life backstage, and how the wrestlers, male and female, are outside of their personas and outside of the ring.\u00a0 Also, it was interesting to see in passing little tidbits of insider stuff, like that the NXT (WWE\u2019s minor league) champion appears to be backstage during events, and how the WWE Performance Center (their training ground) appears to be ironically staffed by mostly former WCW retired talent.\u00a0 Aside from Cameron AKA Ariane\u2019s TMI sex-life and femme-bits issues that were addressed, it wasn\u2019t too much estrogen for a male viewer.<\/span><\/p>\n That being said, I don\u2019t necessarily associate the term \u201cDiva\u201d as one with a positive connotation, regardless of how the WWE is trying to own it as a term to describe a strong independent woman who can do everything in the ring a man can.\u00a0 Sorry, it\u2019s just way too saturated with a negative connotation for me.\u00a0 So to get back to the point, and anoint the biggest diva of Total Divas, we\u2019re going to go a little bit outside the box; not too far, because this diva was in pretty much every episode and got a very generous amount of screen time in spite of not intentionally being a primary cast member.<\/span><\/p>\n The biggest diva of Total Divas was John Cena<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Now over the last few years, it\u2019s been cool to hate on John Cena.\u00a0 Cena himself (or his character) is fully aware of it all, and is not only able to capitalize on the fan reactions to his existence, but has actually managed to\u00a0parlay it into padding his pockets too<\/a>.\u00a0 Personally, there were lapses in my wrestling watching habits in prior years, likely due to baseball coming into season, so I kind of missed out on the birth of the hating Cena trend.<\/span><\/p>\n Personally, I don\u2019t fully get the Cena hate.\u00a0 I get that fans claim that they\u2019re \u201csick of\u201d seeing John Cena getting so much screen time and that he\u2019s a modern Hulk Hogan, but in my opinion, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s not warranted; no matter if people think he sucks, he\u2019s an extremely hard worker that genuinely appears to pour his very heart and soul into the business and gives the proverbial 110%.\u00a0 He\u2019s a far better wrestler than fans want to give him credit for, and his ability on the microphone (which is a major factor in the wrestling industry FYI) is loud and sometimes obnoxiously clich\u00e9, but he\u2019s as sharp as a whip, and capable of improvising on the fly, which isn\u2019t something a lot of guys can do.<\/span><\/p>\n Ultimately, I think for every legitimate John Cena hater, there are about five sheep who do it just because others are doing it.\u00a0 There are maybe 10-15 guys that occasionally go to WWE live events and pack the front rows with \u201cWE HATE CENA\u201d shirts, and people see them, how they conduct themselves, and then think it\u2019s ironically cool, and follow suite.\u00a0 And this is how a bandwagon starts rolling.<\/span><\/p>\n But anyway, back to the point about John Cena being a diva, I think I\u2019ve made myself clear that I don\u2019t have a problem, or \u201chate\u201d the wrestler John Cena.\u00a0 But having watched all of Total Divas, one of the biggest takeaways I got from the show was how much I don\u2019t really care for John Cena the human being, or the human being we\u2019re lead to believe is the real one.<\/span><\/p>\n Stone Cold Steve Austin once said that the recipe to his success, and the evolution of the wrestling industry in his era was \u201cbeing himself, but with the volume turned up to eleven.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 In other words, become an exaggerated version of yourself, and run as far as you can go with it.\u00a0 It worked for Steve Austin, it worked for The Rock, it worked for Mick Foley, and several others.<\/span><\/p>\n This logic does not work with John Cena, if what is seen on Total Divas is genuine and true.\u00a0 If such is the case, the recipe for John Cena\u2019s success lies in the fact that his on-screen persona is a complete opposite of his off-screen humanity, turned up to eleven.<\/span><\/p>\n Where his on-screen persona is a loud, overly-righteous, catchphrase-slinging, street talking, kind of a wigger, the \u201creal\u201d John Cena is this neurotic, quiet, stoic, practically OCD, machine-like, devoid of emotion and consideration of others, businessman who speaks too often in legalese.\u00a0 In other words, the \u201creal\u201d John Cena is a complete diva.<\/span><\/p>\n Throughout watching Total Divas, Cena gets a more-than-adequate amount of screen time, because he\u2019s romantically involved with one of the Bella Twins, Nikki Bella.\u00a0 Throughout the duration of the show, the Cena\/Nikki storyline involves with him asking Nikki to move in with him into his gigantic museum-like mansion in Tampa.\u00a0 But then in kind of a cruel bait-and-switch, once Nikki Bella moves in, he hits her with the equivalent of a non-marital pre-nup that basically strips the notion of boy-asking-girl-to-move-in of all romance, sentiment and love.\u00a0 Furthermore, the show concludes with Cena having difficulty with another person living in his mansion, using his plumbing, actually cooking in the kitchen, and accidentally putting dirty clothes in hamper #2 instead of hamper #1.\u00a0 And the cherry on top is Cena\u2019s complete inability to possibly consider marriage or children in his future, in spite of Nikki Bella\u2019s desire to be both a wife and a mother someday.<\/span><\/p>\n In other words, if such circumstances existed between a couple that weren\u2019t on reality television, we\u2019d all be taking bets and making a pool of trying to extrapolate when they\u2019re going to break up.\u00a0 Real or not, there\u2019s no way John Cena and Nikki Bella stay together, as long as the guy we see on Total Divas really is the real John Cena.<\/span><\/p>\n I have to say, I was pretty neutral-to-supportive of John Cena in the beginning, but after seeing how he \u201creally\u201d is in Total Divas, I don\u2019t really like him at all.\u00a0 All throughout the show, other significant others are shown repeatedly, including Daniel Bryan and Jimmy Uso, who are both involved with Brie Bella and Cameron AKA Trinity respectively, and both those guys are completely chill and seem very much like their on-screen personas, with the volume proverbially turned up a little bit more.\u00a0 But John Cena is isn\u2019t just an ordinary man outside of the ring, he\u2019s this living breathing brand that is so paranoid about his lifestyle that he\u2019s unwilling to compromise even the littlest things to the woman he proclaims to be in love with.<\/span><\/p>\n I used to think that turning John Cena into a heel would be an extremely difficult thing to accomplish, given the fact that so much of the WWE audience already treats him as if he really were one.\u00a0 Wrestling personas are pretty gray as it is these days, so I believed that turning John Cena into a pure heel would be somewhat more challenging than him double-crossing Daniel Bryan or CM Punk with multiple chair shots.\u00a0 But honestly?\u00a0 Get more WWE fans to tune into Total Divas so they can see the John Cena outside of the ring; I\u2019m sure he\u2019d get the sheep and the undecided to think he\u2019s a douchebag too, and they\u2019ll boo him not because it\u2019s what the cool kids are doing, but because they think he\u2019s an unlikeable tool.<\/span><\/p>\n Total Divas is a good show, and it\u2019s definitely good for the unheralded Divas division.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a convenient plot device to use in WWE storylines, such as AJ Lee\u2019s fuel for some pretty brutal promos.\u00a0 But I gotta say that the biggest casualty of the show had to have been John Cena, because it turns out that he\u2019s the biggest diva of them all.<\/span><\/p>\n Unless it turns out that Total Divas too was one gigantic scripted ruse too, which would make for some completely even more line-blurring meta shit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, I admit I watch\u00a0Total Divas.\u00a0 To some, this shouldn\u2019t be much of a surprise, given the fact that I\u2019ve been a fan of professional wrestling pretty much my entire life.\u00a0 From the kid who used to believe that it was all real, to the smarky, kayfabe-wise adult I am now that knows the whole … Continue reading The biggest diva of Total 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![parlay it into padding his pockets too<\/a>.\u00a0 Personally, there were lapses in my wrestling watching habits in prior years, likely due to baseball coming into season, so I kind of missed out on the birth of the hating Cena trend.<\/span><\/p>\nPersonally, I don\u2019t fully get the Cena hate.\u00a0 I get that fans claim that they\u2019re \u201csick of\u201d seeing John Cena getting so much screen time and that he\u2019s a modern Hulk Hogan, but in my opinion, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s not warranted; no matter if people think he sucks, he\u2019s an extremely hard worker that genuinely appears to pour his very heart and soul into the business and gives the proverbial 110%.\u00a0 He\u2019s a far better wrestler than fans want to give him credit for, and his ability on the microphone (which is a major factor in the wrestling industry FYI) is loud and sometimes obnoxiously clich\u00e9, but he\u2019s as sharp as a whip, and capable of improvising on the fly, which isn\u2019t something a lot of guys can do.<\/span><\/p>\nUltimately, I think for every legitimate John Cena hater, there are about five sheep who do it just because others are doing it.\u00a0 There are maybe 10-15 guys that occasionally go to WWE live events and pack the front rows with \u201cWE HATE CENA\u201d shirts, and people see them, how they conduct themselves, and then think it\u2019s ironically cool, and follow suite.\u00a0 And this is how a bandwagon starts rolling.<\/span><\/p>\nBut anyway, back to the point about John Cena being a diva, I think I\u2019ve made myself clear that I don\u2019t have a problem, or \u201chate\u201d the wrestler John Cena.\u00a0 But having watched all of Total Divas, one of the biggest takeaways I got from the show was how much I don\u2019t really care for John Cena the human being, or the human being we\u2019re lead to believe is the real one.<\/span><\/p>\nStone Cold Steve Austin once said that the recipe to his success, and the evolution of the wrestling industry in his era was \u201cbeing himself, but with the volume turned up to eleven.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 In other words, become an exaggerated version of yourself, and run as far as you can go with it.\u00a0 It worked for Steve Austin, it worked for The Rock, it worked for Mick Foley, and several others.<\/span><\/p>\nThis logic does not work with John Cena, if what is seen on Total Divas is genuine and true.\u00a0 If such is the case, the recipe for John Cena\u2019s success lies in the fact that his on-screen persona is a complete opposite of his off-screen humanity, turned up to eleven.<\/span><\/p>\nWhere his on-screen persona is a loud, overly-righteous, catchphrase-slinging, street talking, kind of a wigger, the \u201creal\u201d John Cena is this neurotic, quiet, stoic, practically OCD, machine-like, devoid of emotion and consideration of others, businessman who speaks too often in legalese.\u00a0 In other words, the \u201creal\u201d John Cena is a complete diva.<\/span><\/p>\nThroughout watching Total Divas, Cena gets a more-than-adequate amount of screen time, because he\u2019s romantically involved with one of the Bella Twins, Nikki Bella.\u00a0 Throughout the duration of the show, the Cena\/Nikki storyline involves with him asking Nikki to move in with him into his gigantic museum-like mansion in Tampa.\u00a0 But then in kind of a cruel bait-and-switch, once Nikki Bella moves in, he hits her with the equivalent of a non-marital pre-nup that basically strips the notion of boy-asking-girl-to-move-in of all romance, sentiment and love.\u00a0 Furthermore, the show concludes with Cena having difficulty with another person living in his mansion, using his plumbing, actually cooking in the kitchen, and accidentally putting dirty clothes in hamper #2 instead of hamper #1.\u00a0 And the cherry on top is Cena\u2019s complete inability to possibly consider marriage or children in his future, in spite of Nikki Bella\u2019s desire to be both a wife and a mother someday.<\/span><\/p>\nIn other words, if such circumstances existed between a couple that weren\u2019t on reality television, we\u2019d all be taking bets and making a pool of trying to extrapolate when they\u2019re going to break up.\u00a0 Real or not, there\u2019s no way John Cena and Nikki Bella stay together, as long as the guy we see on Total Divas really is the real John Cena.<\/span><\/p>\nI have to say, I was pretty neutral-to-supportive of John Cena in the beginning, but after seeing how he \u201creally\u201d is in Total Divas, I don\u2019t really like him at all.\u00a0 All throughout the show, other significant others are shown repeatedly, including Daniel Bryan and Jimmy Uso, who are both involved with Brie Bella and Cameron AKA Trinity respectively, and both those guys are completely chill and seem very much like their on-screen personas, with the volume proverbially turned up a little bit more.\u00a0 But John Cena is isn\u2019t just an ordinary man outside of the ring, he\u2019s this living breathing brand that is so paranoid about his lifestyle that he\u2019s unwilling to compromise even the littlest things to the woman he proclaims to be in love with.<\/span><\/p>\nI used to think that turning John Cena into a heel would be an extremely difficult thing to accomplish, given the fact that so much of the WWE audience already treats him as if he really were one.\u00a0 Wrestling personas are pretty gray as it is these days, so I believed that turning John Cena into a pure heel would be somewhat more challenging than him double-crossing Daniel Bryan or CM Punk with multiple chair shots.\u00a0 But honestly?\u00a0 Get more WWE fans to tune into Total Divas so they can see the John Cena outside of the ring; I\u2019m sure he\u2019d get the sheep and the undecided to think he\u2019s a douchebag too, and they\u2019ll boo him not because it\u2019s what the cool kids are doing, but because they think he\u2019s an unlikeable tool.<\/span><\/p>\nTotal Divas is a good show, and it\u2019s definitely good for the unheralded Divas division.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a convenient plot device to use in WWE storylines, such as AJ Lee\u2019s fuel for some pretty brutal promos.\u00a0 But I gotta say that the biggest casualty of the show had to have been John Cena, because it turns out that he\u2019s the biggest diva of them all.<\/span><\/p>\nUnless it turns out that Total Divas too was one gigantic scripted ruse too, which would make for some completely even more line-blurring meta shit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, I admit I watch\u00a0Total Divas.\u00a0 To some, this shouldn\u2019t be much of a surprise, given the fact that I\u2019ve been a fan of professional wrestling pretty much my entire life.\u00a0 From the kid who used to believe that it was all real, to the smarky, kayfabe-wise adult I am now that knows the whole … Continue reading The biggest diva of Total 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